Pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapy

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide. Thanks to the modern oncological treatments, disease specific survival has improved throughout the last decades. The number of breast cancer survivors has been increasing, and more and more attention has been paid to the breast cancer treatme...

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Main Author: Marinko Tanja
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-09-01
Series:Radiology and Oncology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/raon-2018-0035
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spelling doaj-11206c46f67f4e19b2e4b8d577f576982021-09-05T14:01:18ZengSciendoRadiology and Oncology1581-32072018-09-015311510.2478/raon-2018-0035raon-2018-0035Pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapyMarinko Tanja0Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Department of Radiotherapy, Ljubljana, SloveniaBreast cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide. Thanks to the modern oncological treatments, disease specific survival has improved throughout the last decades. The number of breast cancer survivors has been increasing, and more and more attention has been paid to the breast cancer treatment side effects. Whereas there are many data regarding ischemic heart disease after radiotherapy for breast cancer, there is not much data in the literature about the incidence and clinical meaning of pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapy.https://doi.org/10.2478/raon-2018-0035pericardial diseasecardiotoxicitycardio- oncologybreast cancerradiotherapy
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author Marinko Tanja
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Pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapy
Radiology and Oncology
pericardial disease
cardiotoxicity
cardio- oncology
breast cancer
radiotherapy
author_facet Marinko Tanja
author_sort Marinko Tanja
title Pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapy
title_short Pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapy
title_full Pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapy
title_fullStr Pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapy
title_full_unstemmed Pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapy
title_sort pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapy
publisher Sciendo
series Radiology and Oncology
issn 1581-3207
publishDate 2018-09-01
description Breast cancer is the second most common cancer worldwide. Thanks to the modern oncological treatments, disease specific survival has improved throughout the last decades. The number of breast cancer survivors has been increasing, and more and more attention has been paid to the breast cancer treatment side effects. Whereas there are many data regarding ischemic heart disease after radiotherapy for breast cancer, there is not much data in the literature about the incidence and clinical meaning of pericardial disease after breast cancer radiotherapy.
topic pericardial disease
cardiotoxicity
cardio- oncology
breast cancer
radiotherapy
url https://doi.org/10.2478/raon-2018-0035
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